The day Auschwitz fell silent and the darkest scar in human history January 1945. The snow was still red from war when the Red Army reached the gates of Auschwitz — a place the world would soon know as the darkest scar in human history. Inside, they found thousands of skeletal survivors, too weak to stand, wrapped in rags, surrounded by ash and absence. More than a million souls had already been silenced - their lives extinguished by a machine built for death. Among the soldiers were Soviet military doctors, men used to...